If I look on Wikipedia and notice that a certain event occurred in 1905, I can state that the event occurred in 1905 and cite Wikipedia as my source. Only if you are directly quoting a section out of Wikipedia and not paraphrasing do you need proper attribution. Wishful thinking and a great source of ad revenue for Boing^2, but likely wishful thinking on their part.
Here's a great test for the courts. Offer an online service to play Washington's Quinto game or any of the other games they offer. Naturally, this is a service for the physically impaired who aren't able to go out and purchase lottery tickets / scratch cards themselves. Use Washington state's own products against them to demonstrate how stupid this morality legislation is. Land of the free, my ass.
Obviously de Raadt didn't write the former. He was quoted as saying the latter. But development isn't just shutting your mouth and coding -- if you run into a snag, it's easiest when you can go and talk to the person whose part you're trying to interface with or get help from others who have overcome those obstacles rather than having to send an email across various timezones, wait for a response, etc. Having everyone there just in case of such issues leads to more development being done which is, after all, the primary purpose.
Their reputation as an anti-virus provider used to be second to none, now after bloated software and software bugs a lot of people are having second thoughts.
It still is. None is preferable, with Symantec coming a distant second.
I'm not a liberal weenie by any stretch of the imagination, but I just get annoyed that many people will buy a $600 PS3 than would donate that amount to the suffering in our world.
Well, $600 will buy you a fair amount of fish and will feed a bunch of people once. However, you could also buy a PS3 and SimFishing then invite all the starving over to have a competitive game and, in the process, teach them how to fish which is infinitely more valuable.
When I have a Martin guitar repaired under warranty it goes to a guy who lives down the block, not back to Nazareth, PA.
Easy if it's just a tune-up. Harder to do if the parts aren't available on your local planet. So unless it's easily repaired or a mass-market product, I don't suspect warranties will survive space travel.
Wow, now if only I could get my device firmware updated as successfully as this has gone. Imagine having to RMA the rover?
Interesting side-note: I suppose when we're living on other planets, companies who offer to pay return shipping will likely have to update their T&Cs to specify that it applies only to Earth.
"The liver is an organ in vertebrates, including humans. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body including glycogen storage, plasma protein synthesis, and drug detoxification.":)
Similarly, other than range, speed and power, a gun has no advantage over a fist.
There's also another important difference: in some social circles, people would think you're cool if you carried a gun stuffed down the front of your pants.
"May I have your support contract number? Oh, you don't have one? Well why should I spend my free time helping you out for nothing... help yourself or start paying! It's bad enough that I write code and give it away for free, now you want me to do work for you with no compensation too?"
While I generally agree with the points you make, your style of making them seems like a genetically engineered hybrid of BadAnalogyGuy and FalseDilemmaBoy.
And what exactly about my comment did you find homophobic? I pointed out the "he" and "him" and said it would prompt a different ask slashdot. The only thing offensive about my comment is your reply.
"Unlike most Internet traffic, Psiphon data is encrypted and shoots around the world on a network reserved for secure financial transactions, so a censor cannot see what the person is accessing."
Exactly what separate network is this that is somehow being joined to the Internet?
Reporter: "So why can't the government spy on this?" Geek: "We're using 128 bit SSL encryption, which is completely unbreakable." Reporter: "What's that?" Geek: "It's the same stuff that bank networks use to secure their data, and the kind of encryption used to make purchases over the network."
Not very tech savvy reporter, writing up article: "It uses a separate encrypted network exclusively reserved for financial transactions, so the authorities can't tell if it's a credit card purchase or free speech that's being transmitted..."
Of course FCC regulations have influence outside USA, as many other laws and regulations. This does not imply that the rest of the world should meekly accept these regulations as an excuse for hardware companies not to release hardware documentation.
I think you answered your own question that you wrote in a previous post:
"FCC rules does not apply to me, so why should I care about those restrictions?"
You should care because they have influence outside the USA and you shouldn't meekly accept those restrictions which often end up in your products even though you're not in the USA.
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Given that there are seven questions total, maybe you know the mystery surrounding the elusive eighth question: "What is seven minus one?"
And its newly launched comrade site:
http://www.themp3direct.com/
Same look and feel, same story.
Over on Boing Boing, they've noticed that the Captain Copyright web page has stolen a couple of sections from Wikipedia without including the required attributions. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/02/captain_copyr ight_wi.html
If I look on Wikipedia and notice that a certain event occurred in 1905, I can state that the event occurred in 1905 and cite Wikipedia as my source. Only if you are directly quoting a section out of Wikipedia and not paraphrasing do you need proper attribution. Wishful thinking and a great source of ad revenue for Boing^2, but likely wishful thinking on their part.
I think I see a logical whole in your argument.
I'm glad you see my reasoning as being whole logic. I'd hate you to think it was only part logic.
Luggage? Heck, that's what's flashing on my VCR right now!
Here's a great test for the courts. Offer an online service to play Washington's Quinto game or any of the other games they offer. Naturally, this is a service for the physically impaired who aren't able to go out and purchase lottery tickets / scratch cards themselves. Use Washington state's own products against them to demonstrate how stupid this morality legislation is. Land of the free, my ass.
Obviously de Raadt didn't write the former. He was quoted as saying the latter. But development isn't just shutting your mouth and coding -- if you run into a snag, it's easiest when you can go and talk to the person whose part you're trying to interface with or get help from others who have overcome those obstacles rather than having to send an email across various timezones, wait for a response, etc. Having everyone there just in case of such issues leads to more development being done which is, after all, the primary purpose.
Their reputation as an anti-virus provider used to be second to none, now after bloated software and software bugs a lot of people are having second thoughts.
It still is. None is preferable, with Symantec coming a distant second.
I'm not a liberal weenie by any stretch of the imagination, but I just get annoyed that many people will buy a $600 PS3 than would donate that amount to the suffering in our world.
Well, $600 will buy you a fair amount of fish and will feed a bunch of people once. However, you could also buy a PS3 and SimFishing then invite all the starving over to have a competitive game and, in the process, teach them how to fish which is infinitely more valuable.
When I have a Martin guitar repaired under warranty it goes to a guy who lives down the block, not back to Nazareth, PA.
Easy if it's just a tune-up. Harder to do if the parts aren't available on your local planet. So unless it's easily repaired or a mass-market product, I don't suspect warranties will survive space travel.
Wow, now if only I could get my device firmware updated as successfully as this has gone. Imagine having to RMA the rover?
Interesting side-note: I suppose when we're living on other planets, companies who offer to pay return shipping will likely have to update their T&Cs to specify that it applies only to Earth.
Google has also donated $10,000 to OpenBSD/OpenSSH. Looks like it's going to be a summer of code all around.
I sort of liked the liver article myself:
:)
"The liver is an organ in vertebrates, including humans. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body including glycogen storage, plasma protein synthesis, and drug detoxification."
After all, Budweiser is just kidney-filtered Guiness...
What, your liver went on vacation and your kidneys are substituting?
1. The "working code" is several kB of sparsely documented assembly [...]
3. [...] you have six months to come up with a new working solution on your own ?
Six months to rewrite several kilobytes of code? Damn!
Similarly, other than range, speed and power, a gun has no advantage over a fist.
There's also another important difference: in some social circles, people would think you're cool if you carried a gun stuffed down the front of your pants.
More like:
"May I have your support contract number? Oh, you don't have one? Well why should I spend my free time helping you out for nothing... help yourself or start paying! It's bad enough that I write code and give it away for free, now you want me to do work for you with no compensation too?"
Please let us know when your open source Java-to-Javascript compiler is available to download. Thanks.
While I generally agree with the points you make, your style of making them seems like a genetically engineered hybrid of BadAnalogyGuy and FalseDilemmaBoy.
And what exactly about my comment did you find homophobic? I pointed out the "he" and "him" and said it would prompt a different ask slashdot. The only thing offensive about my comment is your reply.
Either he gets the sex or he offends the other partly so badly that he never hears from him again.
Or his offer is accepted, and this prompts a somewhat different Ask Slashdot.
"Unlike most Internet traffic, Psiphon data is encrypted and shoots around the world on a network reserved for secure financial transactions, so a censor cannot see what the person is accessing."
Exactly what separate network is this that is somehow being joined to the Internet?
Reporter: "So why can't the government spy on this?"
Geek: "We're using 128 bit SSL encryption, which is completely unbreakable."
Reporter: "What's that?"
Geek: "It's the same stuff that bank networks use to secure their data, and the kind of encryption used to make purchases over the network."
Not very tech savvy reporter, writing up article: "It uses a separate encrypted network exclusively reserved for financial transactions, so the authorities can't tell if it's a credit card purchase or free speech that's being transmitted..."
Of course FCC regulations have influence outside USA, as many other laws and regulations. This does not imply that the rest of the world should meekly accept these regulations as an excuse for hardware companies not to release hardware documentation.
I think you answered your own question that you wrote in a previous post:
"FCC rules does not apply to me, so why should I care about those restrictions?"
You should care because they have influence outside the USA and you shouldn't meekly accept those restrictions which often end up in your products even though you're not in the USA.
And I wondered why I was being marketed drugs to help with an election.